The NDC Agenda is out now – and Brock and me will do a number of identity & access control related sessions. Brock will talk about identity management in ASP.NET – which is a huge topic – so he split … Continue reading →

I am happy to announce that NDC will host our new workshop in London in December! Join us to learn everything that is important to secure modern web applications and APIs using Microsoft’s current and future web stack! Looking forward … Continue reading →

Authorization is hard – much harder than authentication because it is so application specific. Microsoft went through several iterations of authorization plumbing in .NET, e.g. PrincipalPermission, IsInRole, Authorization configuration element and AuthorizeAttribute. All of the above are horrible approaches and … Continue reading →

The last months we’ve been heads down re-writing IdentityServer from scratch (see here for background) – and we are now at a point where we think we have enough up and running to show it to you! What we’ve done … Continue reading →

In OAuth2 or OpenID Connect you don’t necessarily always use the audience to partition your token space – the scope concept is also commonly used (see also Vittorio’s post from yesterday). A while ago I created a Web API authorize … Continue reading →